Tipton Town Football Club is a

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club based in

Tipton Tipton is an industrial town in the West Midlands in England with a population of around 38,777 at the 2011 UK Census. It is located northwest of Birmingham. Tipton was once one of the most heavily industrialised towns in the Black Country, w ...

, West Midlands, England. They are currently members of the and play at the

Tipton Sports Academy Tipton Sports Academy is a multi-purpose sports stadium located on Wednesbury Oak Road in Tipton, West Midlands, England. It includes a running track, a football pitch and indoor tennis courts. The synthetic running track was laid out in 1998 to ...

History

The club was established in 1948 as Ocker Hill United.Club History
Tipton Town F.C. They joined the Wolverhampton and District Amateur League, before also entering the Handsworth League and the Wednesbury League. The club were Wednesbury League champions in 1949–50 and on three other occasions, as well as winning the Premier Division of the Wolverhampton and District Amateur League several times. In 1967 they adopted their current name and moved up to Division One of the

West Midlands (Regional) League The West Midlands (Regional) League is an English association football competition for semi-professional and amateur teams based in the West Midlands county, Shropshire, Worcestershire, southern Staffordshire and northern Herefordshire. It has tw ...

. Tipton were Division One champions and Division One Cup winners in 1983–84, earning promotion to the Premier Division,League Cup Winners 1938–2015
West Midlands (Regional) League However, after finishing bottom of the Premier Division in 1990–91, the club were relegated back to Division One. League reorganisation in 1996 saw the club moved into Division One South. In 1997–98 they were Division One South runners-up and were promoted back to the Premier Division. The club were Premier Division Cup winners in 1999–2000, and won the Birmingham Midweek Floodlit Cup in 2002–03. After finishing as runners-up in the Premier Division in 2003–04, they were league champions and Premier Division Cup winners the following season, resulting in promotion to the

Midland Alliance The Midland Football Alliance was an English association football league for semi-professional teams. It covered Leicestershire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire, West Midlands, Worcestershire and also southern parts of Derbyshire and Not ...

. In 2011–11 Tipton reached the first round of the

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for the first time; starting in the extra-prelimarinary round, the club played eight qualifying matches (including two replays) to earn a first round tie away to

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club

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. The final qualifying match, a fourth qualifying round replay against

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, saw the club set a new record attendance of 1,429.Tipton Town hit FA Cup jackpot
Express and Star, 28 October 2010 They went on to lose 6–0 to Carlisle.Carlisle 6 - 0 Tipton Town
BBC Sport, 6 November 2010 Tipton were Midland Alliance runners-up in

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. When the league merged with the Midland Combination to form the

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in 2014, the club were placed in the league's Premier Division. However, they finished second-from-bottom of the division in the league's inaugural season and were relegated to the Premier Division of the West Midlands (Regional) League. The following season saw them finish bottom of the Premier Division, resulting in relegation to Division One. In 2018–19 the club won the Birmingham County Saturday Vase, beating Enville Athletic 3–0 in the final.

Ground

The club moved to the

in 1971. Prior to the current record attendance set during the 2010–11 season, the previous record attendance of 1,100 was set for a match against

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on 1 August 1988, The club temporarily relocated to Oldbury United in the early 2000s when the Sports Academy was redeveloped.

Honours

*West Midlands Regional League **Premier Division champions 2004–05 **Division One champions 1983–84 **Premier Division Cup winners 1999–2000, 2004–05 **Division One Cup winners 1983–84 *Wednesbury League **Champions 1949–50 *Birmingham Midweek Floodlit Cup **Winners 2002–03 *Wednesbury Senior Cup **Winners 1975–76, 1976–77, 1980–81, 1995–96 *Birmingham County Saturday Vase **Winners 2018–19

Records

*Best

performance: First round, 2010–11 *Best

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performance: Fifth round, 2004–05 *Record attendance: 1,429 vs

, FA Cup fourth qualifying round replay, 2010–11

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